Bible Verses About Running

Some runners are inspired by reading bible verses about running or ones that could be applied to running. Get inspired with these passages from the Holy Bible. Some of these biblical verses refer to running or are about competing or pushing yourself to be your best.

1. “I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.”
-Philippians 4:13

2. “He gives power to those who are tired and worn out; he offers strength to the weak. Even youths will become exhausted, and young men will fall give up. But those who wait on the Lord will find new strength. They will fly high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.”
–Isaiah 40:29-31

3. “We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance.”
-Romans 5:3

4. “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”
– 2 Timothy 4:7

5. “I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free.”
-Psalm 119:32

6. “The God who has girded me with strength has opened wide my path. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he causes me to stand on the heights.”
– 2 Samuel 22:33-34

7. “With God’s help, we will do mighty things.”
-Psalm 60:12

8. “At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it. So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees. Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be dislocated but healed.”
-Hebrews 12:11-13

9. “But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.”
-2 Chronicles 15:7

10. “When you walk, your step will not be hampered; and if you run, you will not stumble.”
– Proverbs 4:12

11. “I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”
-Ecclesiastes 9:11

12. “Similarly, if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the victor’s crown unless he competes according to the rules.”
-2 Timothy 2:5

13. “Survey the path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.”
-Proverbs 4:26

14. “No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing, he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.”
– 1 Corinthians 10:13

15. “Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly; I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.”
– 1 Corinthians 9:24-27

16. “I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize.”
-Philippians 3:13

17. “Let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.”
-Hebrews 12:1

18. “Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.”
-Proverbs 4:25

19. “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body.”
-1 Corinthians 6:19-20

20. “Do not worry about your physical well-being. People who don’t know any better run after all the things they want, but your Heavenly Father knows your needs. Run for his kingdom and his righteousness then everything that you need will be taken care of.”
-Matthew 6:32-33

21. “Let me run loose and free, celebrating God’s great work, Every bone in my body laughing, singing, ‘God, there’s no one like you.’”
-Psalm 35:9

22. “She wraps herself in strength, might, and power in all her works.”
-Proverbs 31:17

23. “May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy.”
-Colossians 1:11

When you’re running, these Bible verses can remind you that you’re not alone.

24. “Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”
–Isaiah 41:10

25. “His eyes are on the ways of mortals; he sees their every step.”
-Job 34:21